Proceedings of European Workshop on Software Ecosystems

Slinger Jansen:Slinger Jansen (Roijackers) / University Utrecht My research (my publications) is directed at strategies of software companies to obtain and retain customers. At present I am mostly exploring the possibilities offered by software ecosystems. I also direct two projects on multi-tenancy and legacy re-engineering. Slinger Jansen is an assistant professor at the Department of Information and Computer Science at Utrecht University. His research focuses on software product management and software ecosystems, with a strong entrepreneurial component. Jansen received his PhD in computer science from Utrecht University, based on the work entitled Customer Configuration Updating in a Software Supply Network.Thomas Kude:Dr. Thomas Kude, University Mannheim, Germany Lehrstuhl für ABWL und Wirtschaftsinformatik.http://wifo1.bwl.uni-mannheim.de/assistantprofessor/Research Interest:.Cooperation and coordination in the software industry .Coordination and knowledge management in software development teams .Cloud Computing/Software-as-a-Service .IT Outsourcing/GovernanceKarl Michael Popp:Dr. Karl Michael Popp (www.drkarlpopp.com) has broad knowledge and deep experience in the software industry. He is a member of the corporate development team at SAP, frequent presenter at conferences and author of many articles and books about the software industry.Peter Buxmann:Prof. Dr. Peter Buxmann / Technical University Darmstadt.Peter Buxmann is Professor for Software Business & Information Management at Darmstadt University of Technology. His research fields include Software Business, Cloud Computing, Standardization of Information Systems, and the Economics of Open Source Software. Moreover, he serves as a Department Editor of the Journal Wirtschaftsinformatik resp. Business & Information Systems Engineering. He is also the author of more than 200 publications, among them the book The Software Industry. Peter Buxmann is head of several research and consulting projects and supports entrepreneurships in the IT sector. Furthermore, he is a member of the Executive Board and Research Director of the House of IT. Peter Buxmann was born in 1964 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He studied and received his Doctoral Degree at Frankfurt University. Afterwards he worked as a visiting scholar at the Haas School of Business, University of California in Berkeley and as an Assistant Professor at Frankfurt University. From 2000 to 2004 he was Full Professor at Technische Universität Freiberg before he accepts the offer of Darmstadt University of Technology. http://www.is.tu-darmstadt.dehttp://www.house-of-it.eu